Podcast transcripts Welcome to Math! Science! History! I’m Gabrielle Birchak, your host. For Women’s History Month, I wanted to feature one brilliant thing, one clean win, and one woman whose work still quietly runs the world, even if most of us do not realize it. Today’s “one brilliant thing” was a sorting system. A classification scheme. A way to take the universe,
Catherine Macaulay spoke up for women. She condemned the treatment of women, advocating for women’s rights and…
In eighteenth-century Europe, there was an increase in women entering the field of science, more so than in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What happened in the eighteenth century that set women up for success?